Dear baby Johan ko,

Nanay is a sentimental that you are now 6years old! I miss you being the clingy baby that I have, and now, you are one brave kuya who always strives to do his best.

I am still over the moon on how you graduated with highest honors in your Kindergarten graduation last April. You gave Daddy and Nanay the best seats on your graduation (front and middle! ❤️ ) I am so so proud of you, baby! I was amazed how you strived your best to memorize your speech and delivered it with such confidence in front of everybody. You really deserved it, with all the hardwork that you put in on your every homework and seatwork, from online classes to your face to face classes at school.

Now that you are 6, I want you to remember how you read fluently different types of books. Every night, when it is bedtime (a.k.a. kulitan time with daddy and Joshua), I secretly enjoy seeing you in your rough play while saying aloud that you should cool down already because it is time to sleep! I know I’d be missing those nights when you become older boys and teenagers. I love seeing you and Joshua and Daddy enjoying the bonding time every night, although this means a later bedtime (pinapagalitan ako ng grandmas mo hehehe).

I want you remember when you are 6, Joshua (who is turning 2 on June) loves na inisin ka (and the other way around). When you are playing lego, or reading a book, or playing anything, he would just grab whatever you are holding and you’ll have mini-away. Mini–because you don’t really hate each other, but brotherly “away”. It will only last a minute hihi. At the same way, you are also the same way to Joshua. You would always get his attention (“papansin”) when he is busy playing. From time to time, you always say, “I love this baby!”. And I want you to know as I always say–I love you too, my first baby 🙂

I want you to remember that it is your favorite to do running man / takbo takbo. At home, solve ka na doing this after watching few episodes in Netflix. You imagine and pretend you are the hero in a super fight and running and doing superhero poses in the sala/kitchen and even in our mattress in the bedroom! You would always look for a big space when we are out in malls. I would always call you out because you might bump into Joshua while running.

You also can eat on your own, trying to eat more because I am asking you. Thank you baby for always trying to eat even if you dont feel like it, because I am telling you to do so.

You are now learning to.take a bath on your own and brush your teeth on you own.

You are so obedient to us baby, thank you. Even in wearing your mask because we need to do it because of the pandemic, you easily agreed and wore it.

You are excited to go to San Beda as your big school, because its official color is red 😊 You did so well in tje admissions exams and we are ready for enrollement as early as May.

You still love to do vlogs, and touring videos which you have started since you were 4 years old.

You love to borrow our phone to watch Netflix, explore Gooogle Maps, or just simply to browse our pictures and videos.

You love robots and cars, but especially now on transformers type.

You love to create lego stuff and ask me to take a picture of it and upload it in our Smugmug. ☺️

You love nilaga, fried chicken, cupcake, calcheese, fudgee bar, and a lot more chichiria. You are now discovering that you like dunkin donuts strawberry sprinkles. 😍

There’s a lot lot more things, trivial things, that I want you to remember someday about how you were when you are 6years old. But of all these, my favorite is still how you would randomly call me and say “Nanay, I love you!”.

Dearest baby Johan, thank you always for being generous of your love, for always forgiving to Joshua and me and Daddy, for being such a joy to us. God bless you with long long years of good life, good health, abundance, and love. I am always praying for you. I will always be forever here for you.

I love you,

Nanay ❤️